23-369 Reality
Salvation of Saviors
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Alice: How can you win, having lost all hope?
Hat: At first you lose all hope, and then everything works out perfectly.
Alice: However, hope dies last.
Hat: Ha ha ha! Break free from the captivity of your own patterns. Do you think that beyond hope there is only a bummer? In reality, it’s only when you lose your last hope that you can be truly free. Nothing holds you back anymore, you don't care anymore, and you finally get the opportunity to focus on thinking about what should be done instead of what’s going to happen now. Therefore, when hope dies, know that everything is still just beginning, and do things differently.
Alice: Do things differently with respect to what?
Hat: It doesn't matter. To anything. To yourself, for example. Hope is a consequence of habit — the deadly inertia of a state of preservation. Kill hope.
Lewis Carroll
The current civilization is a vast canvas called "The Blind leading the Blind". We consider ourselves deeply civilized, highly spiritual, and developed in every way. We take pride in our achievements in the arts and sciences. But in reality, we are modernly dressed savages, scented with fashionable cologne. Our neighbors on the planet are our enemies. And like a prehistoric tribe, we bravely pound our patriotic chests with our fists, brandishing our nuclear cudgel and terrifying the enemy with the indomitable force of our fists, living in a world created by us, where funerals are more important than the deceased, where a wedding is more important than love, where appearance is more important than intelligence. We live in a culture of packaging that despises content… We still cannot grasp a simple maxim: strength is not in fists, it is in kindness, intelligence, knowledge (your knowledge, not someone else's, no matter what big names this knowledge comes from), and the ability to help. The PAST is LEAVING; the new is waiting for those who want to KNOW it. There is nothing coincidental or non-functional about what is happening today. There is a multi-level process of corrections in information and control adjustments going on at the moment, aimed at restoring the previous state of Intelligent Orientation of the Earth in its process of civilizational development. Much has already been written about this, and it is presented through the specific understanding of people depending on their level of cognition. The next step of such corrective actions, or, if you will, transition, is ALREADY DONE. It is through people, irrespective of their will and desires, that the processes of recreating their reasonable (reasoned) orientation in what is going on around them takes place - constantly and on a daily basis.
These are the most complex processes which, in this transition, affect all aspects of people's life activities and, OF COURSE, also the EMOTIONAL, since in the majority of people today emotions prevail over Reason. Overcoming this is in our own hands, and is possible ONLY through KNOWLEDGE. Everything else is secondary and insignificant and leads only to panicked disappointment in the understanding of what is happening or to the COMPLETE REJECTION of it, depending on the individual. The engine of all previous transitions, as understood by people, has been the pursuit of the good within the known world. The motive of today's transitional process, undoubtedly, IS and WILL BE the pursuit of the good. But not for the benefits of the old world, but for the new good of the new reality.
A world awaits us that will be tastier, brighter, deeper, and more passionate than the familiar old world. Not only will we be able to break physical laws and create our own, but we will also be able to do the unthinkable: see sound and hear color, touch smells and taste gravity. The possibilities will go beyond imagination. This is the ultimate fantasy... This is the beginning of today's realities.
It is possible to take the transition from one reality to another seriously with a clear understanding of WHAT REALITY IS, how our world differs from the virtual one. As long as this point slips by on the subconscious - "it's clear enough." I think it is extremely important to dwell on this point.
The question "what is reality and how does it differ from unreality, from illusion?” has been troubling minds since ancient times until now. In the sixth century B.C., Parmenides [1] said: "To think and to be are one and the same." In the seventeenth century, Descartes repeated the idea: "I think, therefore, I exist." In the eighteenth century, Berkeley [2] said the same thing: "Only the minds' perceptions and the Spirit that perceives are what exist in reality."
Kant stated that man knows his sensations but does not know the source that gives rise to those sensations, that "thing-in-itself" which is inaccessible to perception. Poincaré in the twentieth century said: "It is impossible for reality to be completely independent of the mind that comprehends it."
The leader of the world proletariat, Lenin, said that "the world is a reality given to man in his senses, which is copied, photographed, and displayed by our senses, existing independently of them". He offered proof of this assertion with the help of everyday evidence by inviting his opponents to bang their foreheads against the table and convince themselves of its reality.
This same definition of reality is held by science. It asserts that reality exists independently of our senses, outside of us and on its own. It proposes to BELIEVE this STATEMENT just as the Church believes its religious dogmas, with the difference that the Church argues its claims with references to the Bible, while science acts in Leninist style, relying on the EVERYDAY EVIDENCE (visible to the eye). This same argument was used by Galileo's opponents. When he said that the Sun was standing still and the Earth was revolving, the obvious objection was raised: Lift up your eyes and see the Sun in motion. Lower your eyes and see a motionless Earth. This argument seemed so rock-solid that no one wanted to delve into Galileo's rationale. It was obvious, what else was there to say... "But the rebellious Galileo was right."
The lesson to be learned from this is that obviousness IS NOT a worthy and exhaustive argument. Descartes said that the main obstacle to knowledge is the obvious and the self-evident. The fundamentally new always lies beyond the obvious.
So, science defines as real what our senses register directly or by means of instruments. Objective, authentic and "material" reality can be seen, touched, heard, smelled and tasted. A characteristic feature of reality is that it is fixed by the senses. What is fixation? For example, how do we see an apple? Today it is explained as follows: the light reflected from the object is caught by the eyes. The light is encoded into impulses that travel through nerve fibers to the brain. There they are decoded, and eventually the image of the fruit appears in your mind.
I pay close attention to the fact that the nerve channels do NOT bring the APPLE to the brain, but the encoded impulses, which the brain decodes and transforms into an image. Whether the brain decoded these impulses correctly or could have decoded them otherwise is left out of the parenthesis. Exactly on the same principle, images appear on the monitor. The programmer translates some information into computer language, transfers it from his mind to the hard drive. The computer converts it into electrical signals and then decodes it into images on the screen.
Let us imagine two monitors. On each one we see an image of an apple. On one monitor, the image comes from a camera filming the real fruit. On the second one, the source of the image is 3D graphics. If both images are identical down to the last pixel, it is impossible to distinguish the apple from the illusion. Let's make the situation more complicated. Let's imagine two shelves. On the left there is a real apple, and on the right there is a hologram. The question is: which is the real object and which is the virtual one? If the hologram is made with such care that the eye cannot distinguish it from reality, the answer is also impossible. Now let’s complicate things further... Suppose you have an apple in your right hand and in your left hand you have a glove which emits the same kind of impulses that go to your brain when you are touching a real fruit. With your left hand you touch the hologram fruit, and with your right hand you touch the real fruit. The brain receives identical impulses from both operations. Distinguishing a real apple from a virtual one again IS NOT POSSIBLE. Let’s make it even more complicated... Let's imagine a device generating the same signals as you now receive from the outside world. It is connected to the nerve endings of all five senses, through which signals go to the brain (or even simpler, signals are sent directly to the brain). You see images, smell scents, feel the breeze, and touch objects... How do you distinguish one reality from another?
On what grounds do you claim that the world you observe is real and not a computer simulation? On those grounds that you see it with your own eyes and feel it with your own senses? But if this is indeed a sufficient reason, then on the same grounds it can be argued that virtual reality is NO LESS REAL than the world you perceive, which you call objective reality.
If you put a savage into virtual reality, he will be convinced that what he sees is real, because he will see everything with his own eyes and feel it with his own hands. How do the arguments in favor of the reality of the world you experience differ from the arguments of the savage who asserts the reality of the world? That it feels brighter at the moment? This is not an argument, for progress has not stood still. Yesterday, people on different continents transmitted their voices to each other by telephone. Today, in addition to their voice, a two-dimensional image is transmitted. Tomorrow they will send each other a three-dimensional image, a hologram, like in science fiction films. The interlocutor will not appear in front of you on the screen, but in space. The next step is to be able to touch, smell, see, hear, and even lick and taste each other. For this purpose, it will be necessary, for example, to become a hologram yourself. In terms of realism, the meeting of holograms will not differ from the meeting of people with the difference that at any moment you can disappear, like wizards do in fairy tales.
At the moment there are various accessories available (virtual helmet, gloves, suit, etc.) that affect all of the human senses, creating a full immersion in reality. There are technologies that directly affect nerve endings and even the brain. So far, they are NOT yet PUBLIC due to the high cost and complexity of the service, but this is only temporary. This industry is developing by leaps and bounds. This is the pace at which computers have evolved recently.
Yesterday, they were gigantic in size, occupied entire buildings... and cost tens of billions of rubles. Today, the computer in your pocket, a smartphone, is a thousand times more powerful than any mastodon of the past and costs a few thousand rubles. Someone said that if aviation were developing at this rate, Boeing would cost $500, and it would take 20 liters of fuel to fly around the planet. The process is hampered by limitations on computing power, but new principles of computing are on the horizon, promising to be millions of times more powerful than the known. This is not the limit, this is just the beginning. There's more to come.
A limit above which one cannot rise is not conceivable in the same way that one cannot conceive of the greatest number. Every great number is followed by the next. You can encompass all the numbers and name their totality (mathematicians call it aleph-zero), and start a new count after it, but to me, this is an EMPTY WORD, an unnecessary multiplication of entities. Numbers have no limit. Neither does development. Another thing is in which direction and how this process will go. It follows from this fact alone that virtual reality will overtake actual reality, and it follows that the virtual world will be as much more realistic and profound as the material world is now deeper than the virtual world. What will happen is the same as with the computer - first man beat it at chess and counted faster, and now on the contrary, the computer beats man and counts incomparably faster. This position takes place. And it is correct in some ways. But it WILL NEVER happen; no matter how much someone would like it - of this I am absolutely certain. All of these things are capable of being realized by the Brain (and even more so). It is not the development of virtual reality, the speed of computers and the physics of the use of hardware (devices, etc.), but the DEVELOPMENT of the BRAIN within the framework of the ongoing transformations. This is the main task to be accomplished (not by people, but through people). A tangible consequence of this realization is all that is listed above and from a complete lack of understanding of what is going on, "packed" into the invented form of the so-called "artificial intelligence". Intelligence is one of the functions of the BRAIN, it is a HUGE general mental ability that includes the ability to draw conclusions, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, understand complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. Therefore, I will leave the conclusion about those who introduced this term "artificial intelligence" and apply it in today's verbal "fornication" mainly to emphasize and show their importance to the readers.
We are now on the threshold of the greatest global transition in the history of the world: into another beingness, and from the state of "people" to the state of Human, with the subsequent transition to Superhuman. The whole mass of people, unfortunately, CANNOT step up. People are drawn to the past and afraid of the future. This is the result of evolution - whoever didn't run away from an unfamiliar sound survived; whoever tried to figure out the reason for the sound - whether it was a tiger or a branch broken by the wind - evolution has filtered them out. For this reason, people always understand the future as an improved past. Henry Ford once said - if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said "a fast horse". If in the twentieth century people were asked what they wanted, no one would have wanted a phone and a computer (smartphone) in their pocket. The future is beyond the known, and the unknown is frightening. And it continues the same way today. Nietzsche [3], in his time, said that man is a rope stretched between the ape and the superhuman. I would add that development, especially rapid development, stretches it and one day IT WILL BURST. Everyone will go to their own pole.
There will be Humans at one pole and people at the other. In fact, it looks like humanity is splitting into a superior race and an inferior race. What could be more disgusting? Of course, this analogy is superficial and inherently wrong, but you can't escape the feeling of humiliation at the thought of one of you having gone FAR BEYOND the reach of a hundred thousand. "...Mankind, spilling across the blooming plain beneath the clear skies, rushed upward. Not the whole crowd, of course, but why does that make you so sad? Mankind has always gone into the future through the sprouts of its best representatives." [4]
Within our current type of thinking, there is NO POINT in answering just one question that has arisen, because it generates another. If you answer, for example, what drives the force that moves the electron, the question arises: what drives the force that moves that force? And so on to infinity. There seems to be no way out. But I assert that the very fact of setting the problem indicates that it is solvable. It is a matter of resources. A problem that man cannot solve, cannot be formulated. If the problem is formulated, then it is solvable...
After the well-known events that occurred in Germany and the specifics of our comrades-in-arms, a task that is certainly broader than the German misunderstandings emerged. First, the idea arose (before the events), and then it took the form of a task that undoubtedly NEEDS TO BE SOLVED today. Our comrades-in-arms are primarily interested in its realization. Its potential gives grounds to assert that a critical number of people can be gathered on it (on the idea) within the limits of the problem to be solved, sufficient to create its platform-laboratory, which will solve many things - from ideologically meaningful communication of participants to solving problems of recovery and development, as one of the components of the most important task (I dare say it) of all Mankind – to OVERCOME DEATH. What it consists of - I will tell in full in the following articles. But I will outline the initial tactics for creating the platform.
After attracting ideological supporters and associates, it is necessary to retain them. To do this, you need to understand the technology of retention. No matter how good the assembled people are, they will not hold on by themselves. And you have seen this perfectly well over the last few years. On its own - it just falls apart. Any mass needs to be held. And especially in the retention (in the good sense of the word) of people who have embarked on the path of knowledge, but have not yet learned to the level of the embodiment of knowledge in reality.
Religion retained believers through systematic gatherings in temples, prayers, and rituals. Soviet parties retained supporters through the same systematic holding of mass events: rallies, demonstrations, meetings with their rituals and chants. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, at one time, said: "The Golden Age will include people who will learn to unite. Unification has its own law: two auras amplify each other 7 times, if people are like-minded, the wave is the same, and it is directed to the same goal. Three people – 7 squared, that is, 49 times. If there are 4 people – they amplify each other by 7 to the 3rd power - by 343 times! Therefore, the more people, the more valuable each next person is, he multiplies the power many times over. The team is a great force". All known techniques of retention are designed for the real5. Today, the real is ineffective; we see it daily in our actions within the framework of the New Knowledge Clubs that we have created over the years, and in other everyday moments, and in the faces of those who are openly against our activities, and those who believe that they are here in opposition to us. And if we transform this onto our surroundings, then, for example, all attempts by the authorities to keep the masses in real life are suppressed by the same authorities. And since power is on the side of authorities, it will win in today's conditions of transparency in the real world.
This also applies to the thinking of many of our comrades-in-arms about the construction within our community of a rigid vertical structure of power and a kind of hierarchy (read pyramid) in relationships and subordination and hierarchical approach in deciding anything by anyone, which still is rooted in our Brain - driven in like a nail almost 2,000 years ago.
I believe that the optimal thing today is to keep the masses in virtual space. We need a social platform, something like a CLOSED SOCIETY, where people will interact in the same mode as in other social networks and in our clubs, including, but with the difference that we DO NOT have random people, and there is NO WAY to get in for money or in any other way - "I wanted to – so I got in."
Any number of people above the critical minimum gathered together has value. The more there are, the HIGHER the VALUE of the PLATFORM. You can see this well in existing venues, but there is a crowd gathered there with their own interests and not united by an idea and a task. Since it is large, it can always be transformed through a core of people that are already united by an idea and the understanding of the task.
In order to build the core group, we must first unite those who will form the core. Similarly to a business, these are the founders. They take all the risks with NO GUARANTEES of success. The new business is not a store, where a hundred rubles will give you a hundred rubles worth of goods. The new business in today's realities is a war, where you can invest a lot, but at the output lose everything and stay in debt. As long as there are no founders, there are no hired personnel, from the director to the janitor. The latter come after the former.
Similarly, in our case, until there are no founders, there are no secondaries. Someone has to be the first to go into the unknown. Following in his footsteps, relying on his mistakes, and using his findings, the secondaries will come after.
To determine your status, whether you are the first or the second, imagine yourself in a very tight financial situation. To communicate in the VR club, you need to buy a helmet and other accessories. That is a serious expense for you. So what are your dominant thoughts? How to find the money? Or what are the guarantees of results? Who will reimburse me if I fail? If the QUESTION about guarantees does NOT arise, because you are passionate about the topic, you feel the excitement, as before entering a mystery where miracles are waiting for you, you are a candidate for the first group. If, however, the question of assurance overwhelms you, it does not mean that you are a bad person - it means that you are not in the first group. The first ones have no guarantees. Those who go to Mars first have no guarantees that they will even make it. However, the analogy with Mars – it’s to understand the scale because NO ONE WILL MAKE it there in our earthly form. The iron (rocket) - yes! Those in it - no! The burden of the first ones is to take risks that are unbearable for the secondaries.
When a critical number of founders have gathered, the second stage begins, which includes gathering people into a core group and ROOTING IT in their instinct of self-preservation, and, in parallel, creating a VR platform. When the backbone and the platform are ready, the supporters come in. They live their own lives and, as far as possible, without feats, participate in our cause to the best of their ability. Just as people who understand that objects heavier than air can fly can undertake the construction of an airplane, so people who understand that reality does not differ from virtuality; that personality can be separated from a material medium (from the body) and attached to a virtual one – in the perspective of the development of the Brain, as a consequence of this development; that our platform (virtual network) is a laboratory of this, and not only this, and that THIS is REAL.
For now, we are at the first stage, even when we physically create and "launch" our network as a platform. We need a philosophical understanding of the project, an understanding of the internal logic of what we want to create - society [6], humans (in the framework of the ongoing changes in the LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEM and of course the NETWORK of the Internet, which changes constantly depending on the situations created in the background of the events, happening not only in our country, but in the world at large). This task can be handled by people who not only ask what to do, but also speak, generate thoughts. It's not that easy, you cannot force them out of you. It is like with composing music – if a melody does not stream in your head, you can beat your brains in, but it still will not appear. So adequately assess your abilities.
I will also say that we need those who are NOT simply the first in their constitution, but who feel the aesthetics of the future, who are free of old morals, who are not bound by religious and secular dogmas, who SEE the ESSENCE of THINGS, who distinguish the primary from the secondary, and who are able to think beyond the alphabetical truths. Those who understand that there are no right solutions today and that any nonsense can be the truth. I like the saying of the early Communists: "There are no fortresses that the Bolsheviks couldn’t take". I like the evangelical phrase, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mark 14:38). Such mindset guarantees answers to all questions and overcomes all obstacles.
The creation of our platform in VR space should be preceded by a concept. We need people who will undertake the search for answers to questions on the level of: how to anchor the backbone of a social network on the instinct of self-preservation; what is the image of the VR platform (let's call it a "SvetL" VR platform), how to attract people to it and keep them, by making them interested and giving them a perspective in cognition or reality. The fact that we now need a philosophical understanding of the site does not mean that only people from the IT sphere can do this. Not at all. When a war strategy is being developed, it involves commanders, not gunsmiths. Warlords may or may not understand weapons.
То devise a strategy, it takes the mind NOT of an ENGINEER, but of a STRATEGIST AND PHILOSOPHER. Clausewitz [7] or Liddell Hart [8], who wrote the war manuals that are taught today in all military academies in the world, were not gunsmiths. They understood the nerve of war, which allowed them to write a theory that changed practice and went beyond military use.
Similarly, we need people who are able to see the nerve of the topics we raise. If they are familiar to some extent with the IT-field, that’s good; however, the main knowledge lies beyond this knowledge. We need to see the main thing… At the moment, the gathering of candidates for founders takes place in the Clubs created by us, even if the participants do not notice it, in the “RNTO” activity framework, in the Internet groups we have created and in personal communication. I think it's time to proclaim, in addition to what has already been written, the BASIC PRINCIPLES – the strength of the chain is equal to the strength of the weakest link.
Maximum effectiveness occurs in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect. The closer the participants are to each other in terms of intelligence, scale of thinking, views on life's problems (though, of course, many of them are quite different), norms and taboos, values and goals, the friendlier the atmosphere will be and the more effective the communication will be.
The greatest chance of success is with those who are as free as possible. Those who are bound by the dogmas of the past have NO CHANCE, because the new always lies beyond the boundaries of the old. The first step to freedom: become aware of your lack of freedom. The second step: to go beyond the boundaries in practice.
It is better to lose ten good people who meet all the requirements than to let one in who is also good, but does not meet at least one of the requirements. This was perfectly demonstrated in the situation with the "German question" (Orania site). In other words, if the choice is to lose ten golden people, but there will be no unwanted ones, or to gain ten golden people, but with them the unwanted one will get on the team, we choose to lose ten golden men. There is no need today to fear the destruction of what seemed stable and unshakable to us yesterday. This destruction is of DEFINITIVELY NOT CREATED, even though much has been done. The key is to understand and grasp the momentum and direction. It can't all of a sudden "go bad" overnight! This is not a state of health that can be undermined by "backbreaking work". Perhaps the cause must be sought in a completely different direction. Maybe we were doing something wrong ourselves, in the New Knowledge Clubs and in the "RNTO" as well?
Think about how you can be useful to the cause at this point... Just DON’T DECEIVE YOURSELF. Loud words are worthless. If you're sure there's a treasure buried here, you'll go get a shovel, not just talk about treasure. Don't tell me what is valuable to you. Tell me what you spend your money, time and effort on, and I'll tell you your values.
All life strives for the good. It is impossible for life to strive for someone else's good. If it had appeared by a miracle, it would have been destroyed by the millstones of evolution. Striving for one's own good in the best sense of the word is the engine of evolution. It is the motive of everything, including self-sacrifice.
People only trade their good for a greater good. No one exchanges silver for copper, but everyone will gladly exchange it for gold. Most people reading this, have EARTHLY GOODS as their main value. This is normal; we all grew up in an atmosphere of terrestrial materialism, where the very idea that there could be anything above matter seemed either sectarian or foolish. And from the information you’ve already learned, you know why. So it sits in our Brains (so far!) that the only real, genuine and authentic values are material goods. I do not see this as a problem. Everyone is drawn to what they consider to be real and actual. But everyone, when they see values above the mundane, will strive for them.
F. Shkrudnev
11. 21. 2021
[1] Parmenides - of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher, the main representative of the Elea school.
[2] George Berkeley - British philosopher, known for his system of spiritualist philosophy; Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland.
[3] Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – a German philosopher, classical philologist, composer, poet, creator of an original philosophical teaching that is emphatically non-academic in nature and has spread far beyond the scientific and philosophical community.
[4] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – "Waves extinguish the wind".
[5] Real – an abbreviated slang form of the word "reality," "real world, contrasted with the concept of the Virtual World.
[6] Society – a group of people united by any characteristics (professional, cultural, etc.)
[7] Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz - Prussian general, military theorist and historian. In 1812-1814 he served in the Russian army. With his essay "About the War" he made a revolution in the theory and foundations of military sciences.
[8] Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart - before his knighthood, known as Captain B. G. Liddell Hart was an British military historian and theorist who had a great influence on the development of mechanized warfare in the XX century, as well as on the theory of strategy in general.